Combined hair dressing table and chair



May 5 1964 R. ALT

COMBINED HAIR-DRESSING TABLE AND CHAIR Filed Aug. 8, 1961 W w YQW UnitedStates Patent 3,131,968 COMBINED HAIR-DRESSING TABLE AND CHAIR Ren Alt,8 Rue des Pontonniers, Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), France Filed Aug. 8, 1961,Ser. No. 130,168 Claims priority, application France Sept. 28, 1960 1Claim. (Cl. 297-185) The present invention relates to a transformablepiece of furniture, to wit: a chair adapted to be changed into ahair-dressing table.

The necessity of providing a modern furniture and of cutting out thepresence of very bulky pieces of furniture in standard housings, has ledto resorting to combined pieces of furniture adapted to be used for twopurposes and which are transformable or foldable. Toilet tables orhair-dressing tables in particular are now too bulky and it is oneobject of the present invention to provide a combined dressing table andchair, which replaces them, while serving the same purpose, which chairis provided with a back adapted to be used either as an ordinary seatback or as a hair dresser table.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a combined hairdressing table and chair which comprises an actual seat formed by atubular metal skeleton and provided with -a laterally opening drawer inwhich the hair dressing implements or the like may be housed while theback, which forms a small cupboard including a plurality of compartmentsadapted to carry various srnall bottles and beauty products, is providedwith a hinged door adapted to be opened and to be folded back upwardlyso as to show on its inner now apparent surface a mirror capped by atubular electric bulb. The back is carried by at least one uprightarranged laterally on the same side as the drawer in the seat, so as toallow the user to sit on the seat facing the mirror while, in its closedcondition, the chair may be used in the same manner as an ordinary chairthe seat and back of which are covered by a suitable fabric.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide acombined hair dressing chair and table, wherein the compartments in thecupboard formed in the back are designed in a manner such that thetubular lamp may be collapsed within the cupboard in the closedcondition of the chair.

With these and other objects in view which will become apparent in thefollowing detailed description, the present invention will be clearlyunderstood in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a side elevation of the piece of furniture in its closedposition serving as a seat showing the drawer in the seat;

FIG. 2 is a perspective side view of the tubular metal skeleton of thepiece of furniture; and

FIG. 3 is a perspective side view showing the manner of using the whendisplayed so as to form a dressingtable, the user being seated facingthe back of the chair.

As illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, the combined piece of furnitureincludes chiefly a tubular metal skeleton 1, the actual seat 2 and aback 3 fitted on the skeleton comprising, as illustrated (in FIG. 2, atube forming a lateral upright 4, continued by a lateral loop 5 adaptedto carry the back 3, a second upright 6 forming a duplicate of theupright 4 and extending downwardly, so as to form a double foot 7, atransverse bar 8, a further double foot 9 and a further transverse bar10, the seat 2 being carried ice by the two bars 8 and 10. The seat 2 isprovided with a drawer 11 opening laterally to the same side as thedouble upright 4, 5 land 6, the drawer 11 serving for the housing oftoilet implements such as brushes, combs, haircurlers, razors and thelike.

The back 3 is constituted by a small cupboard or rectangular box 12subdivided into compartments for housing small bottles and beautyproducts and also for housing the tubular electric lamp 13 fitted in thecover 14 which is hingedly secured to the cupboard body and may befolded upwardly and inside which is also secured a mirror 15, said covercarrying the mirror and lamp being collapsed when closed within thecupboard.

The back 3 is angularly shiftable over an extension of the tube 6forming the loop 5 of the skeleton. The two twin uprights 4 and 6 of theskeleton may form a single upright as illustrated in FIG. 3.

Of course, the seat 2 and the back 3 are covered by a suitable fabricsuch as a washable imitation fabric such as a tweed of plastic materialand enclosing advantageously a padding so that the may serve as anordinary padded chair.

FIG. 3 shows how the piece of furniture may serve as a dressing table,the user being seated in front of the mirror provided on the cover inits open position, while she is also within easy reach of the necessaryauxiliaries which are carried, either in the small cupboard on the back,or inside the drawer to the left hand side when open. An electric plugallows using an electric razor.

While I have disclosed several embodiments of the present invention, itis to be understood that these embodiments are given by example only andnot in a limiting sense, the scope of the present invention beingdetermined by the objects and the claim.

What I claim is:

A convertible article of furniture to be used selec tively as aconventional chair and as a dressing table, comprising a tubular metalskeleton including a pair of upwardly extending rear feet spaced apartfrom each other,

a pair of upwardly extending front feet spaced apart from each other,and

a skeleton back projecting upwardly from one of said rear feet on oneside of said tubular metal skeleton,

a longitudinal bar connecting each of said front feet with thecorresponding of said rear feet,

a seat body bridging said longitudinal bars,

a back body pivotally secured to the upper end of said skeleton back,

said back body comprising a cupboard casing adapted to receive bottlesand beauty products and a cover hingedly secured to the upper end ofsaid cupboard casing and receiving a mirror, said cover being foldableupwardly, and

said back body being completely spaced apart from said seat body for apredetermined distance in order to permit the user, when using saidarticle of furniture as a dressing table, to use said article offurniture such to face said back body [and to put the legs into thespace between said seat body and said back body toward the rear of said(References on following page) i References Cited in the file of thispatent UNITED STATES PATENTS Easfce V Feb. 17, 1891 Anderson Apr. 25,1922 Larsen June 13, 1939 Yusek Nov. 3, 1942 Rogers May 9, 1944 Fowlerret ail. Sept. 8, 1953 Simjian 061. 29, 1957 News May 3, 1960 McGuireApr. 10, 196 2 FOREIGN PATENTSv Switzerland Mar. 1, 1939 Italy Aug. 26,1959 France Nov. 23, 1959

